New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-11
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Tho memory OF the dinner last October given 20
Justin Mccarthy by the Irish Parliamentary AssO-
citation has been Loyalty embalmod in beautiful
little quarto volume, in the National color. sent out
by the chairman. Eugene Kelly 1t contains a
verbatim report Of the speeches. 1t is printed in
green ink; Ia bound in green; and it Is throbbng
with sympathy for the Greon Isle.
There IL talk Of establishing q very complete
school OF Journalism In London. Its aim Will be
TO teach asptants for the chair editorial to combine
tho exccllences Of tho English and the American
types OF journalism while avoiding their defects.
Tho school, II established, may be good thing but
We will back well equipped American newspaper
man against the best Of Its graduates any day in
the week.
$50 the Joncses not going to Europe this
summer after all" -
"why. i met Mrs. Jones this Afternoon. and she
assured mo positively that they were going tnat
/ knew she did not mean half sho said"tTown
Topics-
Canada used to poke fun at the State OF New
York for failing to establish free State park at
Niagara Falls. Well. Now-Yori established such
ark moro than year ago. and CAMILLA Is still bag
Cling over the cost Of n similar park on the Canada
sido. Come. neghbor, pay for tho land ana open
your park without any more ado.
GLOW many times to-day have you inquired Tor r, a
letter Lucinda johnson :" qucred the lady at the
delivery window Of q colored girl about ten years
asTcn times. mlssus;. ,.,or,r
"And dda't say there was no let'er'
"wei. why do you come so ofteni We don't have
mail % h sn. ma s'Ssy hn dis letter
in two days ago. an dat some odfer 'Cinda johnson
sas u dars got wsnytour cinda ohsons in Detroit
an when Oars letter fur any Of em IL has 70 sortef
go around III DO In asin dis evening -'Dotro'
Free Press
Tho land "boom" in Kansas City has reached g
rantic proportions and some shrcwd citizens Of that
town expect to SEQ it collapse before long Lost on
the best business streets now said to be selling
for IS 900 front loot. This is Mt least two and a
half times much can BIO obtained for similar
land IN St. Louis and San Francisco. Indeed,
great deal Of Kansas city property Is held at higher
figures than that Of Chicago, and even in New-York
and London eligible land DO bought at figures
not very much higher than the "boom" prices Of
Kansas City. Kansas City Is undoubtedly growing
with great rapidly, but it win have to do q much
bigger business than II does to justify such prices
for land
Ncw-Yoris merchant received an account scnt
by Cincinnati house IN which there was an error
Of four cents. Tho latter wrote about It, The
postage the iettor twenty-five cents, payable
on delivery. Indignant at such Q payment md do
termned to punish tho New-York merchant, the Gin
cnnati house incosed him by mall package con-
merchant had to pay So postage Tho New-YOrk
merchant returned By mail package the postage on
extent Of ESQ. when the Cincinnati house sent by
mail tho LOG DOCK" or o snip, 1Or WnlCh tho NOW
York merchant reid Ell In postage and gave In that
ho was beaten.-{Dry Goods Chronicle.
man in Morocco who persisted in smoking to-
bacco, violation OF the edict OF the Sultan. had
his lips cut Off. II tho Sultan ruled in this country
those men and boys who smoke In the post oficc
and other places frequentod by ladies would have
their heads cut off.-tNorrlstown Herald
Dr. Bernheim tho distinguished Psychologist Of
Nancio. France. goes far In paper recently pub
shcd by him, to prove tho well known thco that
tho mind Of man In certain pathological state be-
comes automatic, speaking and acting by tho sug-
gostion OF others without sef-contro lilo says that
this state Of mind be produced By training. and
was produced in the case Of Moritz scharf, Of
TszaEslar, who told long story Of faisehoods be-
fore tho court, always In nearly tho same words,
accusing his father Of tho murder Of that girl Esther
Dr. Bernheim maintains that tho boy NORTH, by ter
ror corporal suerings tortured into that patho
logical condition and then repeated automatically
what he had been taught to say.
It is rumored that General Crcoly having given |
out all the Arctic weather which he collected In his
trip TO the pole, viii Permit spring, gentle
spring. to get in Of hor fno work.
crank called on the secretary Of anti-sabbath
asked him TO arrest tho Interstate Commerce act |
because it works on Sunday.
Dlobson found his little boy crying tho other
day. and upon asking him what tho matter. tho
prococOus infant sobbed: "Oh pat I'm afraid |
thare's going 10 DO smashtip. Ma said she was
going to spank me, and she's Just been rubbing nitro
,i, her ha datv 4 urlin Ero